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Issue: Vol. 3014 No. 1: 5 Sep. 2011
Type: Articles
Published: 2011-09-05
DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.3014.1.3
Page range: 35–58
Abstract views: 41
PDF downloaded: 1

Marksomyia, a new subgenus of Culicoides Latreille (Diptera: Ceratopogonidae) from the Australasian biogeographic region with descriptions of two new species

Australian Quarantine and Inspection Service, PO Box 37846, Winnellie, NT, Australia, 0821
Honorary Research Fellow, CSIRO Division of Entomology, Canberra, Australia (present address 48 Queens Rd, Asquith, NSW, Australia, 2077)
Diptera Biting midges Australasia Culicoides marksi Culicoides dycei Culicoides parvimaculatus Culicoides pseudostigmaticus Culicoides zentae Culicoides kayi

Abstract

Marksomyia is proposed as a new subgenus of the genus Culicoides Latreille to embrace six species from Australia and New Guinea. Comparative descriptions of males and females of C. zentae sp. nov. and C. kayi sp. nov., pupae of C. zentae and redescriptions of C. marksi Lee & Reye, C. dycei Lee & Reye, C. parvimaculatus Lee & Reye and C. pseudostigmaticus Tokunaga are presented together with distributional data and keys for their specific determination. The designated type species of the subgenus is C. marksi. Marksomyia is further subdivided into three species complexes based on the shape and sclerotisation of the spermathecae.

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